Win 7 Pro says only 6 of 8gb ram is usable in 2011 mbp 15"

[auhlixer]

Does this mean i have bad ram?
Just ran a quick hardware test coming up w/ no errors so now i am doing the extended hardware test.

It's a 2011 15" mbp 2.3ghz
8gb of owc ram
windows 7 professional 64bit
on a ocz agility 2 120gb

no osx yet had to send my owc extreme 6g 240gb back

 

[awer25]

Are you in Bootcamp or a virtual machine? Through Bootcamp, my 8GB kit shows up fine.

 

[Pentad]

Are you in Bootcamp or a virtual machine? Through Bootcamp, my 8GB kit shows up fine.

+1 Same here.

 

[auhlixer]

In bootcamp

The extended hardware test didn't find anything either. But after that windows wouldn't boot and had to restore from the version before i installed bootcamp drivers. The windows memory test didn't find any errors either.......

 

[bperrella]

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Are you Running win 7 64bit? I think for windows to see 8gb you need 64 bit

 

[auhlixer]

Yes

It's Windows Professional 64bit

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Are you Running win 7 64bit? I think for windows to see 8gb you need 64 bit

 

[Blondie :)]

what brand of RAM are you using? you might be able to find some sort of windows firmware update online...unless of course it's apple RAM, then you're kinda hosed haha

 

[auhlixer]

Other World Computing™ Memory

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/1333DDR3S08S/

what brand of RAM are you using? you might be able to find some sort of windows firmware update online...unless of course it's apple RAM, then you're kinda hosed haha

 

[auhlixer]

So i tried booth sticks of ram by themselves

and they both read 4gb usable.......